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Old 01-25-2012, 06:14 PM   Top  -  End  -  #1
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We have gathered here to pay our respects to those who have passed on. All who have fallen shall be remembered; the good and the evil, the lawful and the chaotic.

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Wow, this has loads of people I hadn't remembered. You've put a lot of thought into this.
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Old 01-25-2012, 06:25 PM   Top  -  End  -  #4
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Hooray, it's back. I've missed this thread.

*remembers that this is Hallowed Ground and removes hat in silent contemplation of those who passed*
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Old 01-25-2012, 07:06 PM   Top  -  End  -  #5
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Nice work!

Nale killed three of Malack's children.

The coliseum lost several guards to Thog.
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Old 01-25-2012, 08:50 PM   Top  -  End  -  #6
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Add another "great to see this back!" sentiment, especially given the discussion at the Character Appearances thread. I have, however, a minor correction, and a thought about aggregation:

1) Minor correction: "Somebody" was probably tortured for Tarquin's Ring of Regeneration, not Restoration.
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2) A nice thing about the Character Appearances thread was the aggregation aspect: who has appeared the most? Who is the closest to overcome this or that character? This required of Wrecan (I imagine) some sort of spreadsheet or other model of grouping/aggregating data. While the Graveyard is undoubtedly great as it stands, it would be even better if it could answer things like "who's the deadliest?" or "who has killed the most named characters?" (since, say, Belkar has killed innumerable hobos, but Xykon (I think) has killed the most "significant" characters)... Of course, I'm not saying you must, or that it'll suck if you don't, but since you're finding new energy, I take the liberty to point this factor to your attention. It'd be doubly great if we could see whether, say, Tsukiko had offed more dudes than Haley, or see who has killed the most "high-level" antagonists.


Regardless, I applaud your choice to keep their last lines or meaningful quip about their deaths. It makes each of them much more relevant and poignant within the story.
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Old 01-26-2012, 12:41 PM   Top  -  End  -  #7
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Do we know for sure that the guard who got fed the intestines died?
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Old 01-26-2012, 01:18 PM   Top  -  End  -  #8
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Nale killed three of Malack's children.

The coliseum lost several guards to Thog.
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2) A nice thing about the Character Appearances thread was the aggregation aspect: who has appeared the most? Who is the closest to overcome this or that character? This required of Wrecan (I imagine) some sort of spreadsheet or other model of grouping/aggregating data. While the Graveyard is undoubtedly great as it stands, it would be even better if it could answer things like "who's the deadliest?" or "who has killed the most named characters?" (since, say, Belkar has killed innumerable hobos, but Xykon (I think) has killed the most "significant" characters)... Of course, I'm not saying you must, or that it'll suck if you don't, but since you're finding new energy, I take the liberty to point this factor to your attention. It'd be doubly great if we could see whether, say, Tsukiko had offed more dudes than Haley, or see who has killed the most "high-level" antagonists.
That wasn't what I originally set out to do when I first made this thread, but it's something I've been thinking about. I'm not sure what would be the best way to go about it, though.
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Was so close to bringing this back myself. Thank god you saved me work.
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Haha yeah, I've actually thought about putting this back together myself too. Good to have it back!
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Update from the last strip: the "janitor or something" is a master smith.
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Old 01-26-2012, 05:09 PM   Top  -  End  -  #12
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The hobgoblin cleric (under Hobgoblin Solders (War & XPs)) who "found himself decapitated by Miko" is actually Jirix. This has been confirmed by the Giant in one of his commentaries (in either WaXPs or DStP).
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Do we know for sure that the guard who got fed the intestines died?
I doubt he did. It's not like eating fresh offal is deadly, just disgusting.
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The hobgoblin cleric (under Hobgoblin Solders (War & XPs)) who "found himself decapitated by Miko" is actually Jirix. This has been confirmed by the Giant in one of his commentaries (in either WaXPs or DStP).
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All right. I had been under the impression he had died, based on Roy's line in the first panel of the next strip, but looking at it again, the 'other guy' he says died is clearly Evisceratus, the dead gladiator. So, yeah, fixed.
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All right. I had been under the impression he had died, based on Roy's line in the first panel of the next strip, but looking at it again, the 'other guy' he says died is clearly Evisceratus, the dead gladiator. So, yeah, fixed.
Although being reminded about that scene does explain to me why the guard is in line to give Belkar a good swift kick in the pledge drive.

ETA::: Though, come to think of it, "pulling it out the other end" does imply something pretty darn unpleasant.
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Though, come to think of it, "pulling it out the other end" does imply something pretty darn unpleasant.
Also, completely impossible. The digestive tract is about 30 feet long. Ian must have just been joking or exaggerating.
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I assumed that guard who was forced to eat the intestines was the same guard in the Kickstarter page. Everyone on that line died in the comic by Belkar's hand.
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A while back I had posted two lists of characters (by kill count and kill relevance). As it was based solely on the death markers on the character appearance thread (which are sadly disappearing) it is far from exhaustive. And has also not been updated from the original posting. I'm not sure how relevant it is even to this thread, and I really don't have the time to maintain this sort of a list, but for anyone interested -

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A while back I had posted two lists of characters (by kill count and kill relevance).
Ooh, that's a very interesting perspective.
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Several gladiators in the Empire of Blood were killed by a bit of a dated reference.

Since this happened in a flashback, and was explicitly a really really dated reference, I suggest moving these guys to the "Pre-DCF" category. I cite as precedent the Ninja Valedictorian
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Malack's children should also go there, now that I think about it.

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Since this happened in a flashback, and was explicitly a really really dated reference, I suggest moving these guys to the "Pre-DCF" category. I cite as precedent the Ninja Valedictorian
Yeah, I'd been having issue with ones like this, that happened in the past, but at an unknown time. (The valedictorian, for example, was killed at least 7 years before it was mentioned.) The reference is dated, but it would have had to have happened sometime after Ian was captured by 'Tyranar', and could have happened any time while the Order was doing things back east. I mde sort of a compromise for now, and I'll revisit it later.


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Is Thog dead? It was pretty hard to tell if those were fangs or Xs with all that rubble on top of him. While Nale talked about bringing him along again, it's not like being dead would have been much of an obstacle.

And even if he survived, he's no longer arena champion, so they would have little reason not to slit his throat any more... which Tarqin already said he wanted to do.
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Is Thog dead? It was pretty hard to tell if those were fangs or Xs with all that rubble on top of him. While Nale talked about bringing him along again, it's not like being dead would have been much of an obstacle.

And even if he survived, he's no longer arena champion, so they would have little reason not to slit his throat any more... which Tarqin already said he wanted to do.
We never get any confirmation either way. Tarquin says that they won't know if he survived until they dig him out, and later, says he won't work with Thog simply because he's a loose cannon, which implies he survived. Unless we hear some later implication that Tarquin had Thog killed, I won't put him on.
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What about the rich man whose flying carpet was stolen by Tarquin's companion? ("Indeed, I promise he only missed it for a few seconds.") Did I just overlook that one?
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Tyrinar should be placed in the pre-DCF list, since he was killed while Nale was still with Tarquin.

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We never get any confirmation either way. Tarquin says that they won't know if he survived until they dig him out, and later, says he won't work with Thog simply because he's a loose cannon, which implies he survived. Unless we hear some later implication that Tarquin had Thog killed, I won't put him on.
It doesn't really, because they could just have him raised. Still not official, though.
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What about the rich man whose flying carpet was stolen by Tarquin's companion? ("Indeed, I promise he only missed it for a few seconds.") Did I just overlook that one?
I'd say he counts, also in the pre-Western Continent list.
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